NotePlan for Mac
Task management with Markdown, calendar and notes.
$99.99
In English
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NotePlan overview
NotePlan is designed to make your task planning more productive. It solves problems like bloated, ever-growing to-do lists.
- Modern Writing - Enjoy a full writing area with Markdown and injected flavour for productivity.
- Calendar Notes - A calendar shows you where the action is. Jump right into a day to manage it by writing notes into each day.
- Backlog Notes - Save away your backlogs and general notes behind the daily planning and apart from the calendar.
Features
- Full, modern writing tool included for every day of a month - NotePlan will give you the convenience of a modern writing editor supporting markdown. Add formatting to your task lists and notes to keep it better organized.
- Monthly calendar overview with color-coded daily note content - See a summary of your notes and color coded lists in a monthly calendar view. Use keyboard shortcuts to navigate and quickly jump into a day to review or edit it. The calendar will also show you, if you missed out on some tasks, so nothing important slips from your mind.
- Schedule tasks to stay organized - If you couldn't finish a task, don't leave it unmanaged on the list. Re-schedule it to another day. Or, if you manage a backlog, schedule a todo directly from there onto your calendar.
- Backlogs, drafts, bug lists or just text notes, apart from the calendar - Some information is not related to a day and should be kept separated from the calendar. Like bug lists or project backlogs. They can be managed in NotePlan and scheduled directly into the calendar, when required. Notes can be organized by tagging them. In the overview you can filter your notes by tags.
- Your notes are not saved on our servers. You will find them safe and sound in your iCloud Drive.
- Integrations to useful apps like iCalender, Reminders, and more are available.
What’s new in version 3.16
The latest NotePlan update brings you the all-new Card View (Kanban!). These features are designed to help you visualize projects and notes, making planning and productivity smoother than ever.
Here’s what’s new:
KANBAN-STYLE CARD VIEW — Organize your notes visually
The new Card View allows you to:
- Turn your notes into cards, group them into columns and drag them across the columns to organize your projects.
- Use Frontmatter to group notes into columns.
What is Frontmatter?
Frontmatter is metadata added at the top of your notes, enclosed within triple dashes (---). This metadata can include fields like tags, dates, or status values. For example, you can add "status: To Do" to a note to group it in the "To Do" column.
Benefits:
- Project Management: Create columns to represent stages of progress (e.g., "To Do," "In Progress," "Done").
- Task Prioritization: Visually sort and rearrange notes based on urgency or importance.
- Personal Use Example: Track your book reading with a Kanban board. Create columns like "Want to Read," "Currently Reading," "Finished," and "Rated." Add notes for each book and update their status as you progress through your reading list.
Improved & fixed
- Improved Obsidian import for a smoother experience.
- Fixed a crash when clicking on weekly or monthly notes.
- Improved detection of frontmatter when empty lines appear before it.
- Prevent a crash when closing HTML plugin windows.
- Fixed copying links to synced lines.
- Updated the design of timeblock notifications to be slimmer.
- Fixed Web Views not deinitializing when closed.
- References that are collapsed in the original note now display correctly, without unwanted ellipses.
- Fixed saving tables with short headings that resulted in invalid Markdown.
NotePlan for Mac
$99.99
In English
Version 3.16
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Oct 31 2024
Version: 3.14.2
Yes, it is a subscription (and an expensive one at that), but I couldn't do my job (High School Principal) half as well without it. Every now and then I look at the alternatives, but none of them gels with the way I work as fluidly as NotePlan does. I do all my daily planning, meeting agendas, phone call notes, etc. in my daily note, but then I can also link to my other notes. It has Apple Calendar and Reminders built-in, so you can also use it with Siri. It may not be for everyone but this is easily the most used app on my Mac.
Jul 23 2024
Version: 3.13.1
There are so so many other options. Beaver-Note is open source and offers the same features, is multi-platform, and their cloud sync is cheaper. I use Joplin, also the features. YMMV.
Jan 26 2023
Version: 2.4.6
It doesn't look like MacUpdate has been keeping this app up to date. It's now up to version 3.8 and is still actively developed. Version 3 is a big upgrade (in terms of functionality and price, now being a subscription), but I couldn't live without it.
Jan 10 2020
Version: 2.2
With the new 'markdown live rendering' (i.e. you see rich text, not markdown even though that's what it's using), this great task management app has become even more user-friendly. The same markdown rendering is also now live on the iPhone/iPad apps as well.
Aug 13 2019
Version: 2.0.16
Solid app, regularly updated. Bought this a few months ago and am slowly migrating my Todoist tasks to it.
